CVE-2025-68950 | Magick's failure to limit MVG mutual references forming a loop

ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. Prior to version 7.1.2-12, Magick fails to check for circular references between two MVGs, leading to a stack overflow. This is a DoS vulnerability, and any situation that allows reading the mvg file will be affected. Version 7.1.2-12 fixes the issue.

Published: 2025-12-30 Last update: 2026-01-06 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Analyzed，CVE State: published
View at NVD, CVE.org, EUVD

CVE-2025-68950 is rated Low Risk (16.6/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.01%). Low composite risk—no urgent action required; patch on your normal maintenance cycle and revisit priority if CVSS or EPSS increases.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2025-68950

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2025-12-31 — 0.01% —

Full EPSS history (1 record total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2025-68950

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
4.0 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:L)
They already need access on the box, or another person has to do something wrong; it’s not a remote drive-by.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:N)
Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:N)
Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way.
Integrity (I:N)
Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:L)
Might cause slowdowns, glitches, or partial disruption—not a full brick.
 2.5 1.4 [email protected]
6.2 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:L)
They already need access on the box, or another person has to do something wrong; it’s not a remote drive-by.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:N)
Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:N)
Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way.
Integrity (I:N)
Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:H)
Could take the service down hard or make it unusable for people who depend on it.
 2.5 3.6 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2025-68950

GitHub Security Advisory for CVE-2025-68950

GHSA-7rvh-xqp3-pr8j · Severity: medium · Ecosystem: nuget — ImageMagick's failure to limit MVG mutual causes Stack Overflow

OS Trackers for CVE-2025-68950

vendor priority summary link
alpine — CVE-2025-68950: 1 source package rows (imagemagick); 82 state rows across 2 repos (3.23-community, edge-community); fixed 13, open 69. https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2025-68950
debian not yet assigned CVE-2025-68950 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (imagemagick), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-68950
redhat medium — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-68950
suse medium CVE-2025-68950 severity moderate: SUSE including 96 source package names (2.1.3-5.3:rsync-3.2.7-4.1, 2.1.3-6.2:rsync-3.2.7-4.1, …), 295 product×package rows across 62 product lines (Container suse/sl-micro/6.0/baremetal-os-container, Container suse/sl-micro/6.0/base-os-container, … (62 product lines)): Fixed 200, Known Not Affected 81, First Fixed 14. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-68950/
ubuntu medium CVE-2025-68950 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (imagemagick), 9 status rows across 9 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): needs-triage 7, ignored 1, released 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-68950

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2025-68950

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
imagemagick imagemagick < 7.1.2-12 cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2025-68950

cvelogic Threat Intelligence